‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Countdown to the Season Finale…

By | Posted on May 14th, 2013
The Name of the Doctor

In this past Saturday’s episode penned by Neil Gaiman, the Cybermen returned and were blown to bits, their technology seemingly obliterated while at the same time — and rather thrillingly — not quite atomized. Also, Clara got a ...

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WATCH: Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘Star Trek’ as Political Film – and ‘Doctor Who’

By | Posted on May 14th, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch in 'Star Trek Into Darkness' (Photo: Paramount)

Benedict Cumberbatch, already much admired by his legions of followers, is set to rise to a new level of stardom in the U.S. with this weekend’s release of Star Trek Into Darkness.

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WATCH: Trailer For Richard Curtis’s Inter-Temporal RomCom ‘About Time’

By | Posted on May 14th, 2013
Rachel McAdams and Domhall Gleeson in 'About Time'

This looks rather good. It’s the trailer for the new Richard Curtis movie, and he appears to have taken some direct inspiration from his experience of writing “Vincent and the Doctor” for Doctor Who.

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WATCH: David Brent Wants To Teach You The Guitar

By | Posted on May 14th, 2013
David Brent, Teacher.

Ricky Gervais is a man with a very clear idea of how the media landscape is changing. When podcasts were still a relatively new idea, he made free ones with Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant.

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BAFTAs: Peter Capaldi Teases Part in ‘Musketeers,’ Romola Garai Reminisces on ‘The Hour’

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
Former 'Hour' co-stars Peter Capaldi, Romola Garai at the BAFTA TV Awards in London, May 12, 2013. (Photos: Rex Features via AP)

The 1950s-set newsroom drama The Hour may have come to a close, but stars Peter Capaldi and Romola Garai were both out in support of the critically beloved saga at the BAFTA TV Awards in London yesterday (May 12). Capaldi was a double ...

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BAFTAs: Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker on What to Expect from BBC AMERICA’s ‘Broadchurch’

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
'Broadchurch' stars Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker at the BAFTA TV awards on May 12, 2013. (Photo: BBC AMERICA)

If you want to know what Brits were watching this past spring, the answer was Broadchurch, the critically acclaimed drama that made the fictional killer of a young boy in a sleepy seaside town the topic of national conversation. The ...

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WATCH: Take A Look At 1920s London, In Color

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
Buses vs horses. London Bridge, 1927

This footage of 1927 London was filmed by Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of the moving picture, using a process of shooting in colour that was developed by his equally ground-breaking father William. The All-British Friese-Greene ...

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Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
(PBS)

Nonnatus House meets Hell’s Angels. That was what happened in the latest episode of Call the Midwife, with leather-wearing nuns and helmeted midwives zooming about on powerful, low rider hogs through London’s East End in 1958.

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Olivia Colman Is The Queen Of The BAFTAs

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
Olivia Colman and her two BAFTAs (Photo by Jon Furniss/Invision/AP)

Last night’s BAFTA TV awards ceremony was a most Anglopheniac spectacle indeed, with top prizes going to some of our favorite British talents. Olivia Colman, for example, (finally) won two awards, for entirely contrasting ...

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‘Doctor Who’ Recap: ‘Nightmare In Silver’

By | Posted on May 11th, 2013
Nightmare In Silver

NOTE: Doctor Who fans, we’re giving you a weekly chance to win a set of Eleventh Doctor novels containing Tommy Donbavand’s Shroud of Sorrow, Nicholas Briggs’ The Dalek Generation, and Justin Richards’ Plague of the ...

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